When we talked a few years ago after “Manhattan Beach” was published, you said of “Goon Squad” that “Futurism is a sucker’s game.” But now you’re back to the future in “The Candy House.” How did that happen?įuturism is never the draw per se, but if I want to write about characters in the present and what happens in their lives, sometimes I have to go there. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. She talked with the Tampa Bay Times via Zoom. In “The Candy House” she returns to the linked story form, and to the future, with themes related to technology and social media and their human impacts.Īt her website,, she gives readers an inside look at the experimentation that went into the book, letting them view the “archeology” of chapter versions: “The failures, but I’ve stopped calling them that. Her next book, “Manhattan Beach,” was a historical novel set in New York during World War II, traditional and linear in form. Egan’s three previous novels had been well received critically, but “Goon Squad” made her a star. “Goon Squad” won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.
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